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The proposal of this text is to discuss, from the Brazilian context, the complexity present in the historically constructed forms of regulation/deregulation of labour, in which informality -- and its combat -- were at the centre of development policies and that, later, in a context of transformations of global capitalism, was re-signified as flexible work and entrepreneurship. Specifically, the authors will discuss this process through two categories of workers: workers in informal commerce and digital workers. The argument is that, even in very different categories -- one traditionally associated with precarious, unqualified and low paid work and the other expression of modern, specialized and creative work -- connections can be drawn between them at the level of the processes of flexibilization and hegemony of the entrepreneurial logic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The interdisciplinarity constitutes sociology as an academic discipline. This characteristic stimulates the discussion about its theoretical and methodological specificities, the formation of a disciplinary culture and the corporatist debate on what would be its peculiarities as a field of knowledge. The synthetic science, as proposed by Comte, since the start encompassed contributions of other human science and also of the hard sciences. In Brazil, sociology was synonymous of social sciences. Anthropology, political science and sociology shared the same field, building up common forums of discussion while, at the same time, strengthened their disciplinary trajectories. Since the 1990s, graduate studies expanded in Brazil; there was also the growth of graduate programs, undergraduate courses and professionals associations in the three areas. There was the growth of graduate education encompassing the contributions of the economy, geography and of other similar disciplines. We argue that, however the interdisciplinarity is the in the future of scientific investigation and can give limits to overspecialization, paradoxically solid disciplines make interdisciplinarity more effective. In this we analyze this process in Brazil, focusing the graduate courses in sociology and social science, using data from Coordination for the Improvement of Personal in Superior Education (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Ensino Superior -- Capes), of the Ministry of Education of Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this article is to discuss the growth of workers' cooperatives within the context of recent industrial restructuring in Brazil. Based on the analysis of empirical cases, it seeks to assess whether, and to what degree, this kind of self-management results in workers' gains in autonomy and the democratization of workplace relations, or if this process of economic restructuring has merely left these workers in a more precarious employment situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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